The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.